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We’re Living Through a Rare Economic Transformation
by charleshughsmith

In 1993, management guru Peter Drucker published a short book entitled Post-Capitalist Society.  Despite the fact that the Internet was still in its pre-browser infancy, Drucker identified the developed-world economies as knowledge-based – as opposed to from industrial economies, which were were from the agrarian societies they superseded.

Drucker used the term post-capitalist not to suggest the emergence of a new “ism” beyond the free market, but to describe a new economic order that was no longer defined by the adversarial classes of labor and the owners of capital.  Now that knowledge has trumped financial capital and labor alike, the new classes are knowledge workers and service workers.

We’re Living Through a Rare Economic Transformation
 by charleshughsmith

In 1993, management guru Peter Drucker published a short book entitled Post-Capitalist Society.  Despite the fact that the Internet was still in its pre-browser infancy, Drucker identified the developed-world economies as knowledge-based – as opposed to from industrial economies, which were were from the agrarian societies they superseded.

Drucker used the term post-capitalist not to suggest the emergence of a new “ism” beyond the free market, but to describe a new economic order that was no longer defined by the adversarial classes of labor and the owners of capital.  Now that knowledge has trumped financial capital and labor alike, the new classes are knowledge workers and service workers.

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Too Much of a Good Thing
by Adam Taggart

For those who received an error message recently when trying to access this site, our apologies.

Over the weekend, we achieved an important target milestone: one of our articles was picked to be featured on the Drudge Report, one of the most trafficked pages on the Internet.

Too Much of a Good Thing
 by Adam Taggart

For those who received an error message recently when trying to access this site, our apologies.

Over the weekend, we achieved an important target milestone: one of our articles was picked to be featured on the Drudge Report, one of the most trafficked pages on the Internet.

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David Stockman: We’ve Been Lied To, Robbed, and Misled
by Chris Martenson

David Stockman, former director of the OMB under President Reagan, former US Representative, and veteran financier is an insider's insider. Few people understand the ways in which both Washington DC and Wall Street work and intersect better than he does.

In his upcoming book, The Great Deformation, Stockman lays out how we have devolved from a free market economy into a managed one that operates for the benefit of a privileged few. And when trouble arises, these few are bailed out at the expense of the public good.

By manipulating the price of money through sustained and historically low interest rates, Greenspan and Bernanke created an era of asset mis-pricing that inevitably would need to correct.  And when market forces attempted to do so in 2008, Paulsen et al hoodwinked the world into believing the repercussions would be so calamitous for all that the institutions responsible for the bad actions that instigated the problem needed to be rescued — in full — at all costs. 
David Stockman: We’ve Been Lied To, Robbed, and Misled
 by Chris Martenson

David Stockman, former director of the OMB under President Reagan, former US Representative, and veteran financier is an insider's insider. Few people understand the ways in which both Washington DC and Wall Street work and intersect better than he does.

In his upcoming book, The Great Deformation, Stockman lays out how we have devolved from a free market economy into a managed one that operates for the benefit of a privileged few. And when trouble arises, these few are bailed out at the expense of the public good.

By manipulating the price of money through sustained and historically low interest rates, Greenspan and Bernanke created an era of asset mis-pricing that inevitably would need to correct.  And when market forces attempted to do so in 2008, Paulsen et al hoodwinked the world into believing the repercussions would be so calamitous for all that the institutions responsible for the bad actions that instigated the problem needed to be rescued — in full — at all costs. 
Image | Precious Metals: The Unseen Risks
Precious Metals: The Unseen Risks
by John Michael Greer

Precious metals have been a core investment vehicle for very good reasons since before the beginning of recorded history.  In periods of crisis, by and large, precious metals – especially gold – maintain their value to a much greater degree than other media of exchange.  In times of complete political and social collapse, in turn, precious metals – again, especially gold – are often accepted in exchange for goods and services when nothing else has any exchange value at all.
Precious Metals: The Unseen Risks
 by John Michael Greer

Precious metals have been a core investment vehicle for very good reasons since before the beginning of recorded history.  In periods of crisis, by and large, precious metals – especially gold – maintain their value to a much greater degree than other media of exchange.  In times of complete political and social collapse, in turn, precious metals – again, especially gold – are often accepted in exchange for goods and services when nothing else has any exchange value at all.
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Say Goodbye to the Purchasing Power of the Dollar
by Adam Taggart

On a long solo car trip this past weekend, I downloaded several podcasts to listen to as the miles passed. One was a classic: The Invention of Money, originally released by NPR's Planet Money team back in January of 2011. I highly recommend listening (or re-listening) to it in full.

The podcast is a great reminder of how any currency in a monetary system is a fabricated construct. A simpler way to explain this is to say it has value simply because we believe it does.

Say Goodbye to the Purchasing Power of the Dollar
 by Adam Taggart

On a long solo car trip this past weekend, I downloaded several podcasts to listen to as the miles passed. One was a classic: The Invention of Money, originally released by NPR's Planet Money team back in January of 2011. I highly recommend listening (or re-listening) to it in full.

The podcast is a great reminder of how any currency in a monetary system is a fabricated construct. A simpler way to explain this is to say it has value simply because we believe it does.

Image | John Doody: The Falling Knife of Mining Stocks Has Hit the Floor
John Doody: The Falling Knife of Mining Stocks Has Hit the Floor
by Chris Martenson

Look across the universe of equities these days and it's hard to find a stock sector more thoroughly hated by investors than precious metals mining companies.

They are supposed to act as leveraged investments on the price of the precious metals. However, on average, the sector has underperformed the price action in gold in silver over the past several years. In fact, many miners have been absolute widowmakers.

On top of that, as the stock market has powered to new highs over recent months, many miners and mining indexes have sunk to multi-year lows.

What gives?
John Doody: The Falling Knife of Mining Stocks Has Hit the Floor
 by Chris Martenson

Look across the universe of equities these days and it's hard to find a stock sector more thoroughly hated by investors than precious metals mining companies.

They are supposed to act as leveraged investments on the price of the precious metals. However, on average, the sector has underperformed the price action in gold in silver over the past several years. In fact, many miners have been absolute widowmakers.

On top of that, as the stock market has powered to new highs over recent months, many miners and mining indexes have sunk to multi-year lows.

What gives?
Image | Investors Beware: Market Risks Today Are Higher than Ever
Investors Beware: Market Risks Today Are Higher than Ever
by Chris Martenson

After the shot across the bow in 2008, you might have expected regulators and market participants would use the experience to change for the better, to become more prudent, and to reduce the sorts of risky behaviors that almost crashed the entire system.

Unfortunately, you'd be wrong.
Investors Beware: Market Risks Today Are Higher than Ever
 by Chris Martenson

After the shot across the bow in 2008, you might have expected regulators and market participants would use the experience to change for the better, to become more prudent, and to reduce the sorts of risky behaviors that almost crashed the entire system.

Unfortunately, you'd be wrong.
Image | Bob Fitzwilson: Charting a Safe Course Through A Market Gone Insane
Bob Fitzwilson: Charting a Safe Course Through A Market Gone Insane
by Chris Martenson

The Dow Jones has had 10 consecutive days closing in the green, a streak not seen since the mid-1990s. Both the Dow and the S&P are at or near all-time record highs.

That's what happens when you flood the markets with liquidity, which the Federal Reserve has done with trillions of newly-printed money over the past several years. It's currently juicing the money supply to the tune of $85 billion per month. All those dollars have to go somewhere.

So, has the Fed won? Has the crisis been averted?
Bob Fitzwilson: Charting a Safe Course Through A Market Gone Insane
 by Chris Martenson

The Dow Jones has had 10 consecutive days closing in the green, a streak not seen since the mid-1990s. Both the Dow and the S&P are at or near all-time record highs.

That's what happens when you flood the markets with liquidity, which the Federal Reserve has done with trillions of newly-printed money over the past several years. It's currently juicing the money supply to the tune of $85 billion per month. All those dollars have to go somewhere.

So, has the Fed won? Has the crisis been averted?
Image | Let’s Stop Fooling Ourselves: Americans Can’t Afford the Future
Let’s Stop Fooling Ourselves: Americans Can’t Afford the Future
by Chris Martenson

The truth is: The three adult generations in the U.S. are suffering, and their burdens are likely to increase with time. Each is experiencing a squeeze that is making it harder to create value, save capital, and pursue happiness than at any point since WWII. At that point, we were a creditor nation with an economy exploding into dominance on the world stage. Now, however, the U.S. is the largest debtor nation and our economic hegemony is increasingly at seige across a number of fronts.

A continuation of the status quo is a decision to sleepwalk face-first into the constraints hurtling towards us.

Instead, shouldn't we stop fooling ourselves and ask: What should we be doing differently?
Let’s Stop Fooling Ourselves: Americans Can’t Afford the Future
 by Chris Martenson

The truth is: The three adult generations in the U.S. are suffering, and their burdens are likely to increase with time. Each is experiencing a squeeze that is making it harder to create value, save capital, and pursue happiness than at any point since WWII. At that point, we were a creditor nation with an economy exploding into dominance on the world stage. Now, however, the U.S. is the largest debtor nation and our economic hegemony is increasingly at seige across a number of fronts.

A continuation of the status quo is a decision to sleepwalk face-first into the constraints hurtling towards us.

Instead, shouldn't we stop fooling ourselves and ask: What should we be doing differently?
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